Spring Cleaning Your Life: Perspective, Underwear & the Art of Winnowing

About this episode

Caroline and Eva explore the metaphor of spring cleaning as it relates to various aspects of life, including relationships and mindset.

Send us Fan Mail What does a drawer full of old underwear have to do with your emotional blind spots? More than you'd think. This week, Caroline and Eva tackle spring cleaning — and quickly realize that it's a perfect metaphor for everything: your closet, your relationships, your mindset, and yes, your lingerie situation. They dig into construal level theory (why it's easier to give advice than take it), the Jewish concept of Seder and order, Marie Kondo's fatal flaw, road rage, m...

People in this episode

Hosts: Eva Heyman, Caroline Leventhal

Topics covered

• spring cleaning
• emotional blind spots
• relationships
• mindset
• construal level theory

Keywords

• spring cleaning
• emotional blind spots
• relationships
• mindset
• construal level theory
• Marie Kondo
• Seder

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Marie Kondo, Seder

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